@kha I figured out why we had a long pause in the end of this benchmark
when using `11` instead of `9`. The function `deriv` was computing
`d := d "x" f` (the expensive computation), printing the size of `f` and
returning `d`. So, in the last step we were quickly printing the size
of the input 40230090 (when using `nest deriv 11 f`), and then computing
`d := d "x" f` which returns an object of size 374429936 which is never
used for anything.
That is, the pause had nothing to do with memory deallocation. I found
this issue after I implemented the deferred free feature which did not
fix the pause :)
@kha The `-O3` option is not at CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS, but in build mode
specific configuration. I added this hack because I want to include
performance tests too. Perhaps, I should move performance tests to a
different directory.
